For years, Facebook has been working to compete in the livestreaming space, and even acquired Mixer's assets after Microsoft shut the service down a few years ago. While streaming on Facebook will continue, the dedicated Facebook Gaming app will be shutting down soon.  Meta announced this week that it plans …

Back in 2020, upon launching the Quest 2 headset, Meta made it a requirement that Facebook accounts be used to log in to the headset, a policy that caused a lot of issues and controversy at the time. Just one year later, the company changed its mind and began working on a new Facebook-less login system. It has been a while since the last update, but later this month, Facebook logins will no longer be required for VR headsets.  

Back in 2020, upon launching the Quest 2 headset, Meta made it a requirement that Facebook accounts be used to log in to the headset, a policy that caused a lot of issues and controversy at the time. Just one year later, the company changed its mind and began working …

Last year, Facebook made a very sneaky acquisition, snapping up popular GIF sharing platform, Giphy, in a $400 million deal. The acquisition was done privately, and seemingly at a discount, considering the company had recently been valued at $600 million. That little deal quickly caught the attention of regulators, and …

Over the years, Facebook has found itself at the centre of many controversies, from political scandals to privacy violations. Now, the company is hoping to shake off its bad reputation with a rebrand, transforming into ‘Meta'. Meta is the new name for the parent company behind Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus …

Back in late 2020, it was announced that all those with an Oculus Quest would soon need to make a Facebook account in order to continue using the headset. This understandably sparked a great deal of backlash. It seems as though the company took this feedback seriously, as it has …

Yesterday saw Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all go down as part of a major outage, which also impacted connected services like Oculus. Little was known about the issue at the time, but now that everything is back up and running, the root cause has been explained.  In a blog post …

Recently a CDN issue knocked out some of the world's most popular and often used websites for a period of time. Now, Facebook seems to be having its own infrastructure problems, with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram all going offline as part of a major outage.  All three apps were knocked …

Last night, Facebook announced a voluntary recall of Oculus Quest 2 foam facial interfaces due to a small percentage of customers reporting skin irritation. For now, Oculus aims to replace all foam coverings with a new silicone cover, which also means new Quest 2 sales will be temporarily halted. Over …

Earlier this month, Facebook announced plans to begin testing advertisements inside Oculus Quest apps. These new in-VR ads would be tested across a few different apps and games, leading to a wave of negative reviews for certain titles and forcing at least on developer to reconsider. Facebook's VR ads won't …

Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus back in 2014 brought with it a number of benefits, but also a number of concerns. Facebook’s status as a tech giant has allowed for great strides in the VR platform to be made, with Oculus continually innovating. However, it has also tied the platform closer …

The European Commission and the UK are launching separate investigations into Facebook citing antitrust concerns over the Facebook Marketplace and the company's use of classified advertisements on the platform. In particular, regulators are concerned that Facebook is unfairly using advertising data to distort competition. Speaking on the investigation, the European …

As we learned yesterday, the Oculus Rift line of VR headsets is no more. Once current units of the Rift S are gone, there will be no more stock and we're unlikely to see a Rift 2. Interestingly, a Rift 2 had been developed and was nearing production, but Facebook …

We're just a month away from Epic Games' lawsuit against Apple going to trial. In recent months, Apple has been contacting various companies across industries requesting information that could help its defence. We already know that Valve was forced to hand over data from Steam and it seems that Apple …

It looks like Facebook is going to be making headlines for all the wrong reasons again this week, as personal data from 533 million accounts has leaked online. The leak sees accounts from users in 106 countries compromised, including 32 million users in the US and 11 million users from the UK.

If you tend to use WhatsApp regularly, then over the last week you've likely encountered a pop-up about the app's new privacy policy. This new policy immediately stirred controversy due to new rules that would allow data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook. As a result, the introduction of this newly …

 The US Federal Trade Commission is taking aim at Facebook this week, filing a lawsuit alleging that the company has engaged in systematic anti-competitive behaviour. The lawsuit comes following an cooperative investigation between attorney generals in 46 states.  The lawsuit alleges that Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp …

While Microsoft, Amazon and Google are taking bigger swings at the cloud gaming market, Facebook is taking baby steps. This week, the company announced that it would be bringing cloud streaming to its existing Facebook Gaming service.  Facebook Gaming hopes to “make it easier to play games instantly”. This will …

The account-linking requirement between Oculus and Facebook has already been causing headaches for some Quest 2 buyers, but there is even more to consider. If you decide to disable your Facebook account for any reason, you will also lose access to all of your purchased content on Oculus devices.  As …

The Oculus Quest 2 has officially released and alongside the new headset, new terms and conditions require users to link their Oculus and Facebook accounts moving forward. Unfortunately, this process is already proving to be a complete mess, with people finding their Oculus and Facebook accounts banned after trying to …

Oculus's most controversial change to date is officially taking place this week. For the first time, a Facebook account will be required for first-timers to Oculus VR headsets.  Since launch, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, GearVR and Oculus Go owners have been able to log in using their own separate Oculus …

Recently, Oculus announced that use of its VR devices would soon require a Facebook account, in a move intended to bring the Oculus brand and its owner – Facebook – closer together. Now, the VR manufacturer’s annual ‘Oculus Connect’ event has been rebranded to Facebook Connect, with the next event …

When Facebook acquired Oculus back in 2014, many VR owners expressed concern that the tech giant would force users onto the controversial social media platform. While this hasn't been the case until now, with Oculus operating mostly independently, Oculus owners will soon be forced to create a Facebook account in …

2020 has served as a year of great reflection when it comes to hate speech and general intolerance. While companies such as Twitter and Twitch have started making moves to limit such actions on its platform, Facebook has seemingly done no such thing. As such, a large number of companies …

In an oddly timed move, Microsoft has reportedly stopped all advertising spending on Facebook and Instagram. Given that Microsoft is one of the biggest spenders on Zuckerberg's platforms, this is an important shift, but it comes at an odd time, as Microsoft just partnered with Facebook Gaming following the shutdown …

Despite years of heavy investment and even bringing in some huge streamers on multi-million dollar contracts, Microsoft's streaming platform, Mixer, has been unable to catch up and compete with the bigger sites like Twitch, YouTube and even Facebook gaming. Now, Mixer will be shutting down, with the service set to …

With the recent announcement that Facebook is buying Mixer, it is becoming clear that the social media platform is looking to compete in the games industry in a major way. Now, the company has announced that it has acquired Ready At Dawn, the studio responsible for The Order: 1886 and …

Facebook has made a number of huge acquisitions over the years to maintain its dominance in the social media landscape. From the $19 billion and and $1 billion purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram respectively, to the $2 billion buyout that brought Oculus under Facebook's umbrella. The next frontier appears to …

Facebook has just launched the Facebook Gaming app for Android. Originally scheduled for a June release, Facebook has expedited the app's launch given the rise in interest of the gaming and streaming scene during the COVID-19 pandemic. Out of the 2500 million users on Facebook, 700 million engage with Facebook's …

So far this year we've seen Mobile World Congress cancelled, the Game Developers Conference postponed to an unknown date and now, Facebook is also cancelling its annual F8 conference as fears around the Coronavirus continue to mount. Initially, Facebook's conference was scheduled to take place on May 5th and May …